Unions Embrace Street Corner Solidarity

For Pablo Alvarado, the genesis occurred back in 1999 when janitors in Los Angeles were on strike. Some of the cleaning companies came to the corners and workers' centres where day labourers gathered and tried to hire workers to cross the janitors' picket lines, he recounted to IPS.

"The workers said 'Thanks, but no thanks, we won't do that.' And instead 260 day labourers joined 2,000 janitors who marched across the landscape of Los Angeles," he said. Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 9, 2009

The story on labor and immigrants and unions is interesting in view of the scarcity of reporting on labor issues in the mainstream (big corporate) press.

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